£I4OO STOLEN.
♦— POSTAL CLERK ARRESTED. MOST OF MONEY RECOVERED. (PRESS iSSOCIATIOK TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, March 13. A robbery occurred in the Money Order and Savings Bank Department of the Chief Post Office on Monday, when £I4OO was stolen. It appears that £I4OO was sent as a remittance through the post and received at the office. When the figures were gone into at the ciose of the day's operations, the sum mentioned was missing, As none of the clerks could give, any information as to its whereabouts, the police were informed. As the result of enquiries made, Detective Baylis, who was handling the case, arrested to-dav a postal clerk, aged 18, and charged" him with the theft of the money. The police state that about the whole of the £I4OO has been recovered. The clerk will appear in the Magistrate's Court to-morrow.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19259, 14 March 1928, Page 11
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140£1400 STOLEN. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19259, 14 March 1928, Page 11
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